Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	charles_n	king_n	navarre_n	2,711	5	11.8052	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73201	The present state of Spaine. Translated out of French; Estat d'Espagne. English.	Sergier, Richard, attributed name.; Lewkenor, Lewis, Sir, d. 1626, attributed name.	1594 (1594)	STC 22997; ESTC S125625	22,718	65

THE PRESENT state of Spaine Translated out of French ET VSQVE AD NUBES VERITAS TVA Imprinted at London by P. S. for Richard Serger 1594. THE STATE OF SPAINE IT is a thing noted from all antiquitie that God hath appointed in this worlde the certayne continuance of Monarchies estats and families hath lymited the prosperity and thraledome of nations and bounded the very liues of all men liuing neuerthelesse as well in matters of state as priuate those are founde moste durable which retayne and keep the greatest perfection and excellencye from their creator Some being ordained to serue for ministers of his furie othersome for examples of his diuine bounty and grace For we see many men and sundry estates whome God hath from moste base foundations and petty beginninges raised and aduaunced to the most supreame degree of power and dignity inuesting them with mighty Empires and boundlesse kingdomes With whose power as of men little vertuous it hath pleased the almightye to serue himselfe but as with a scourge to punish the Enormous sins of his people others haue beene ratified from God aboue in this most soueraigne degree of all humaine maiesty in recompence of their holinesse of life and vnreprouable dealing among men But so soone as the one or the other beganne to forget the occasion for which they were placed in this world which was to set forth the kingdom honour and glory of God onely whome they together with all men ought to confesse to be their general Lord and father and that they haue gonne a boute by false pretextes and sinister meanes to aduaunce their owne priuat honor and glory and not that of their great Lord and maister Then God who alone raigneth whome onely we oughte to serue casteth them downe headlong destroyeth their monarchies desolateth their kingdomes and rooteth out their posterity from off the face of the earth For example the crowne of Castile aunciently a little country gouerned by Iudges afterwardes by Earles in the end by Kings created through the beneficence of Samson the fourth of that name King of Nauarre sirnamed Samson the Great was by Jsabel vsurped from the daughter of Henrye laste of that name Kinge of Castile the saide Jsabell matched in mariage with Ferdinando sonne to king Iohn of Aragon whose kingdoms encreased almost in our memory into a mighty puissaunce and state But for that the possessors therof not resting content with those blessings which God hath giuen them here on earth haue in hostile maner inuaded the Countries and possessions of other Princes they seeme at this presente to menace their own ruine as I hope to dilate more at large This Prince then ambitious if euer were any in this world amongst other his famous feates of Armes to the ende to inueigle the earle of Roussillon from Charles the eighte king of France made no bones to abandon his owne Cousin Germaine and brother in law Ferdinando kinge of Naples to the furie of those Armies whome Charles the eight marched against him for the recouery of the sayd kingdome Then during the raigne of Lewes the twelfth breaking al conditions of League and amitye forcing the degree of kindred and alliaunce which hee had with Frederick then king of Naples he confederated with king Lewes to dispossesse Frederick of his kingdome of Naples and to share it betweene them two as in effecte they did Afterwarde vnder a collour of supporting Pope Julius the second his quarrell againste the Emperour Maximilian and the kinge of Fraunce but of a troth for very feare he had of the greatnes of our king who then might haue chased him easely out of his vniust possessions which he held in Italie he entertained the Pope in deadly grudge againste him and stirred vp the king of Englande and the Switzers to warre vppon his iacke Inuaded likewise from his owne niece Catherine vnder pretext that hir husband was adherente to the French King the kingdome of Nauarre her owne proper inheritance which when he had conquested hee could find no better deuise to assure it vnto himselfe then by a false pretence protesting howe he was ready to make restitution thereof to his neece conditionally that lest he should be too much ouer seen a truce should be acorded him for a yeere with the king of Fraunce during which in liew of restoring it he fortified al places therof as much as he porsibly could razed al the rest of the citties so tresses and Cittadels making expresse inhibition that there shoulde not be any tillage of the earth at al to the end he might take away all meane of recouering the places by him vsurped and fortified in the sayd kingdome Yet this was not all For with his force hee could finely sow his subtilty and helpe himselfe with the cloake of religion to make his matters the better causing to excommunicate the kinge of Nauarre husbande to his said neece for that he had taken the parte of king Lewes the twelfth a Prince so good and so holy that as yet of vs all hee is called by none other name then a saint and a very father of the people and vpon this excommunication he sente very many preachers into the kingdom to turne the peoples harts from the obedience of their true kinge and Queene their lawful Princes And what with this matter succeeding so well vnto him and what with the death of the sayde kinge and Queene of Nauarre which hee sawe fell out soone after within eight moneths together hee suffered his young nephewe Henry their sonne to bee trayned vppe by certaine ministers in the opinion of Martin Luther and for the same effecte sent vnto him some expresly himselfe who drawing the Pope into hatred for the wronge don vnto their father to excommunicate him at the instance of his vncle Ferdinando who longe before had gaped for that kingdom it was no hard matter for them to transporte the heart of these young Princes especially that of Margaret his wiues sister to the great king Francis from the hatred of the Pope to the hatred of his very religion it selfe This is then the iust and true meane by which the Crowne of Castile hath receaued her ample encrease by annexing to it so goodly a kingdom as is that of Nauar. But what fell out afterwardes Ferdinando enioyed it a small time no more then he did the rest of al his other Kingdomes God permitting them to passe vnto another famely that his childreÌ„ both male femile who were many in number shuld die before him except onely Joan who was maried to Philip Arch-duke of Austria a generous Prince but of a very short life after whose decease she fell beside her selfe leauing notwithstanding behinde her the two greate Princes Charles Ferdinando sons begotten by the Arch-duke of her owne body This Prince Charles beeing come to the Crowne by the death of the said Ferdinando for he ruled King notwithstanding his mother Joan was aliue detained as prisoner by him soughte by all meanes possible the alliaunce of Fraunce promised by infinite Treaties especially in that of Noyon to be accomptable for the kingdom of Nauarre which

for all tha the neuer was And tasting more and more the sweetnes of coÌ„manding he got vnto him made speedie prouision for himselfe of the two militarie Orders of that of Saint Iames and of that of Calatraua in Spaine to the preiudice of his brother to whom they were resigned opened his eyes also to the Empire obtained it enioyed all the Kingdoms and Seigniories both left him by Ferdinando of Arragon and these which his mother the foole held likewise the Estates of Flanders and the prouinces there vnto annexed leauing his said brother only some corner of a country towards Austria wherewith after some wrangling betweene them he did as a moderate prince content himselfe being neuer afterwards much mooued against his brother new created Emperour but because he was still egging him to resigne to his son Philip now at this present raigning the estate of King of Romanes whereof he was possest to the ende Philip might to the preiudice of the saide Ferdinando his vncle succeed in the empire Ambition most assuredly is a thing greatlie detestable before God who will haue men to content theÌ„selues with the lot which he giueth them in the earth but the pretexts which are taken of the pure seruice of God for an other subiect are worst of all and crie for vengeance before his holy face I will not say this prince Charles the first vnder collor of defending the catholike religion in Germany went about as som haue said to inuade the estate and libertie of the princes of Germany but this I will aduouch that hee and Philip king of Spaine his sonne haue employed themselues by confession of his owne men and none of his meanest seruantes the one of them yet liuing as I thinke the Seigneur de Champigny not long since high Treasurer in Flaunders brother to the Cardinal Granduel towards the protestants of Germany following the steps of the abouesaid FerdinaÌ„do of Arragon their predecessour to cause the deceased king of Nauarre to bee instructed in the opinion of Luther to the ende to make him the further froÌ„ the crown of France from the alliance of the FreÌ„ch froÌ„ the recouery of his kingdom of Nauar. But if he who seduceth but a litle simple child be pronounced by Gods owne mouth to be of worser state then if hee were cast into the bottome of the sea with a milstone tyed about his neck what shal his iudgment be towards him who seduceth not only a child but causeth others to seducea king a whol kingdome but this not sorting so good effect as they coulde wish there were 50000. crownes sent to the king of Nauarre then besides some horses in gift to moue the war in France the which 50000. crownes for al that wer refused witnesses good ynough of this most wicked inclination vile affectioÌ„ of the King of Spain may be the Marquessat of Saluces vpon the which hee hath caused 2. seuerall enterprises to be made by his son in law the Duke of Sauoy at the first it was recouered by the sage conduct of Mounseur de Rhets Marshall of France and the pernicious league made for the ruine of al FraÌ„ce nay rather of all the Estates of Europe wee need no other testimony of his good nature and dispositon towards euerie one of vs the places borrowed in Germany from the Archbishop of Liege and Colonia there to foyst in his garrisons when hee list and to leuell right from thence at the empire to the preiudice of his coosens the children of Ferdinando of Austria vnder shew of making raÌ„pire against the Protestants of Germanie for the good of the Catholik religion forsooth his practises past and euerie day put in vre in Italie his agents sent into Poland Denmarke England Scotland and other corners of the world say the same and wel may we liken the king of Spaine to those who detaining an inheritance wrongfullie seek by greater wronges and outrages to driue the true heirs farther from the recouerie of their owne But the iudgments of God are great his counsels woonderfull and the effectes of his iustice inestimable He suffereth according to the Apostles saying that we be coÌ„moÌ„ lie punished by those against whom we haue trespassed The king of Spaines fathers and he himselfe haue sought by all means to ruine the kinges of Fraunce and particularlie Henry the fourth raigning at this present and by abusing the muffler of religion to recoyle this lawful successor from the crown of France whom they see full of valour and fed as they say with the bloud and marrow of the Lion ready prest one day to chalenge his iust inheritance But God who hateth him more who abuseth the holie name of religion than him who hauing bene seduced by purposed malice as our king hath hath turned from it would that this king should bee newe borne who beeing deliuered from so manie snares laide to entrappe and snare him hath receiued the Crowne of Fraunce presented vnto him by a puissant Armie who hath submitted it self vnto him with all the greatest States and honestest people of France And when Euen then when al the world iudged him by the malicious cariages and practised death of the deceased king Henry the third the farthest from the diadem thereof Germanie for her part shee openeth her eies to defend her selfe against this kinge of Spaine who as an eagle supposeth to holde already in his taleÌ„ts the empire of the whole world The like doth Italie and already this building of kingdomes patched together of so many vsurpations beginneth to dissolue and shake in sunder Already the states of Holand and Zeeland knowing by the iuste iudgement of God howe wrongfully they were forced and distracted from the obedience of laqueline of Henald their Countes and lawfull Princesse who for to saue her owne selfe was constrained to forsake her estate haue puld their necks out of the yoke and made themselues free choosing rather to die then to be subiect to a Domination so intollerable as is that of the proud Spaniard The prouinces of Zutphen and Gueldres taken away from their lawfull Seigneurs by the deede of guiftes which the laste Duke Charles of Bourgundie who died before Nancie sought to get at the handes of Duke Arnald then his prisoner to the preiudice of Adolf his sonne haue slipt the coller also of his obedience and the Country of Frizelande hath don no lesse The best aduised inhabitants of the lowe Countries of Flaunders Henald and Artois held out their armes to the king of Fraunce nor onely for the excessiue impositions as of paying two shinllings for the grinding of a quarter of wheate foure shillings for a cow which is the slaughter or kept to giue milke and other such like petty taxes for which they pay full deere in Flaunders but for that

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